Developing for Windows Phone: A Guide for iOS Developers

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Developing for Windows Phone:
a Guide for iOS Developers

MICROSOFT CAMPUS
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
MARCH 18, 2013
3.18.2013 - WWW.QUBOP.COM

Hello!

Evan Kirchhoff, CTO
evan@qubop.com
Twitter: @theevank

www.qubop.com
Twitter: @qubopinc

About Qubop Inc.

Qubop is a mobile app design, development and consulting company, originally founded as a digital agency in
2002. Current clients include interactive agencies, consumer brands, healthcare firms, Fortune 500 companies
and early-stage startups. Company principals have worked in mobile for over 10 years, and have deep
knowledge of the industry and platform landscape.

Qubop has strong in-house native development teams for both iOS and Android. We have successfully
designed and shipped dozens of mobile apps, providing end-to-end solutions from the earliest discovery
phases to full application programming and maintenance.

Our own apps have been featured by Apple in the iTunes stores in the US, Canada and Japan, by Barnes &
Noble in the Nook Shop, and by Amazon in the Appstore for Android. We have also created apps for Windows
Phone, and are currently porting apps to BlackBerry 10.

WWW.QUBOP.COM

Developing for Windows Phone:
a Guide for iOS Developers

1. Setting up your Mac
2. Configuring your environment
3. Porting iOS apps to Windows Phone
4. The Microsoft mobile toolchain


Possibly the best Windows laptop on the market*

X
(Difficult to run WP simulator)
✓
Use BootCamp:
Applications/Utilities/
Boot Camp Assistant.app

* Although not exactly the cheapest


As of last week, Windows 8 finally supported on Macs (Mountain Lion only)

Dual-booting Windows on Mac: Recommended Setup

100GB
MINIMUM PARTITION SIZE
INSTALL UTILITIES FOR:

Reading foreign filesystems
Partition handling

OPTICAL Tweaking Mac hardware
behavior in Windows
DRIVE
MAKES LIFE EASIER Also join Microsoft’s
BizSpark Program!


Join BizSpark for free OS licenses and dev tools: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
3.18.2013 - WWW.QUBOP.COM (Must be less than 5 years old, less than $1M annual revenue)

Recommended:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-hfs-bundle/

“Oops, I made my Windows partition too small!”

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/


Recommended: install Trackpad++ http://trackpad.powerplan7.com
3.18.2013 - WWW.QUBOP.COM speed, multitouch gestures and Lion-style reverse scrolling in Windows on MacBook)
(Fix pointer

Remap Mac keyboard (in Windows mode)
to avoid motor-memory madness

SUGGESTION: SWAP ALT AND COMMAND KEYS IN WINDOWS,
SO (CMD-TAB) SWITCHES APPS ON BOTH PLATFORMS


Or just go buy a dedicated
Windows PC for development
(They’re inexpensive!)


MOBIPARK (IPHONE)


MOBIPARK (WINDOWS PHONE)


Replicating the iOS UIPickerView control (XAML portion)

Replicating the iOS UIPickerView control (C# portion)

MOBIMILEAGE (IPHONE)
(Popular, but could not port to WP7, due to requirement for constant background GPS updates)


Now possible in Windows Phone 8!

MOBIMILEAGE (WINDOWS PHONE 8)


Don’t replicate iOS/Android UI

FOURSQUARE (IOS) FOURSQUARE (ANDROID) FOURSQUARE (WINDOWS PHONE)


The Panorama Control

24px “peek”


Panorama = Tab Bar (iOS) or Action Bar (Android)

WINDOWS
PHONE IOS ANDROID


Pivot = Segmented Control (iOS)

WINDOWS MAIL


“Application Bar” = Toolbar (iOS) + Menu Button (Android)

+


Don’t nest draggable elements inside a draggable screen

Top-level Drill-down
map is map responds
non-draggable, to drag, pinch/
only clickable: zoom gestures

Use hardware back button,
3.18.2013 - WWW.QUBOP.COM not in-app back navigation

Take the Back Button Seriously

DO NOT ADD YOUR OWN BACK BUTTONS WITHIN YOUR APP
USE HARDWARE BACK BUTTON TO CLOSE DIALOGS, DISMISS KEYBOARD
DO NOT USE THE BACK BUTTON TO MOVE SIDEWAYS IN PIVOT/PANORAMA


Remember that the platforms are divided differently
“PC” “MOBILE”


What to expect if coming from iOS to Windows Phone

• More rapid development
Up to 4:1* advantage in time and code size vs. iOS

• Apps are prettier by default
Beautiful layouts & parallax scrolling built into stock templates

• Typically less custom UI work
Platform assumes high UI standardization across apps

* For apps where code is heavily UI-based


4500 LINES OF CODE 900 LINES OF CODE

Visual Studio: project templates for Windows Phone design patterns

Visual Studio: substantial code automatically generated with app templates

WP8 = 3 screen sizes, WP7 = 1 screen size (“Emulator 7.1”)
Overall development experience: more like iOS than Android

Thanks!

Evan Kirchhoff, CTO
evan@qubop.com
Twitter: @theevank

www.qubop.com
Twitter: @qubopinc

Developing for Windows Phone: A Guide for iOS Developers

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